Blog Posts tagged ‘state auditor David Vaudt’

If you forgot to reset your clock over the weekend to “spring forward” for Daylight Savings Time, you weren’t alone.
Gov. Terry Branstad spoke at his weekly 9 a.m. press briefing on Monday with the clock still set at 8 a.m., one hour behind. A clock in the main dining area ...

Iowa Legislature: Morning briefing, Monday, March 11, 2013
What’s happening:
Lawmakers marked the end of their first 2013 session deadline last week when many bills that failed to clear a full committee were declared dead. You can expect more work on the floors of both chambers as they get more serious about ...

A key state lawmaker and Secretary of State Matt Schultz are at odds over the use of federal money to investigate alleged voter fraud in Iowa.
Sen. Tom Courtney, D-Burlington, chairman of the Iowa Senate’s Government Oversight Committee, sent formal letters on the matter Tuesday to State Auditor David Vaudt and ...

State Auditor David Vaudt today released a report on the Iowa Veterans Home in Marshalltown that shows the annual cost per resident in fiscal year 2011 was $112,895, up 4.4 percent over the prior year. The average number of residents decreased from 689 in fiscal year 2010 to 639 in ...

An Iowa economic development group misspent $101,789.39 of federal funds, much of it on payments to its former executive director, according to a state auditor’s report.
Iowa Auditor David Vaudt released a report today detailing the funds misspent by the Chariton Valley Planning and Development Council of Governments. The council serves Lucas, ...

The City of Bloomfield Volunteer Fire Department and its former leaders are the focus of an investigation after a state auditor’s report released today identified $113,958.76 in questionable financial transactions from department accounts.
Among the transactions include a $528.42 payment on a car loan taken out by the department’s former chief, Robert Hougland, as well as “personal purchases” made at an ...

Officials filed a criminal complaint Wednesday against a former Iowa fire chief accused of making questionable purchases for his department from businesses he owned.
Former Denison Fire Chief Michael McKinnon, 41, was charged in Crawford County with first-degree theft and felonious misconduct in office. McKinnon served as chief from Jan. 18, 1999 to Jan. 3, 2010, when he ...

A private financial rating agency this week flagged bonds for Iowa’s public works program after noting that state officials had failed to deposit enough money in a reserve account.
Standard and Poor’s Rating Service placed the I-JOBS program’s bonds on its CreditWatch list Thursday after Iowa officials contacted the agency this ...

Waterloo, Ia. — Gov. Chet Culver today shot back at State Auditor David Vaudt, basically saying he ought to mind his own business.
Vaudt yesterday issued an unofficial opinion that the budget Culver submitted to the Legislature last month is not balanced according to state law. The governor is required to ...

While the Legislature is wrestling with reining in existing tax breaks, several groups are hoping lawmakers will be willing to add a few more. That’s here. Things like testing supplies for nonprofit blood center would be exempt from sales taxes. The elderly and disabled could get a property-tax break with ...